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...directed nothing but the 1955 French jewel-heist flick Rififi, his cinematic reputation would have been secure. But in addition to taut capers like Rififi and 1964's Topkapi, American director and screenwriter Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted from Hollywood after being identified before Congress as a former communist, was also a master of film noir--exemplified in movies such as 1948's police thriller The Naked City and 1950's Night and the City. Among all his solid works, though, it was Rififi--with its masterly 30-min. dialogue- and music-free robbery sequence as a centerpiece--that remained...
...silk to cheap tableware. At a whopping 5.4 million sq. ft. (500,000 sq m), it covered more space, as Barbieri-Low points out, than the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest in the U.S. today. From a general reader's perspective, it's this sort of taut link between a remote buried past and the present that keeps Barbieri-Low's professorial yet approachable history from floundering in arcane detail. (You may want to skim the fastidious passages on Qin and Han tax codes, however...
...played indoors, accompanies the "great chieftain o' the puddin-race" born aloft to the table by a chef. Then, a wild-eyed Scotsman recites Robert Burns' poem Address To a Haggis, and upon reaching the line, "An' cut ye up wi' ready sleight," he plunges a dagger into the taut sheep's stomach amid cheers from the diners. In a ritual repeated by Scots across the globe on Burns Night, January 25, the birthday in 1759 of their most cherished poet, the attack on the main course continues...
...evening began with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Overture to “The Wasps,” a popular selection from a suite written for a 1909 production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture began with taut strings that emanated an aura of stress. Flutes followed, shrieking. This tense introduction represented the “wasps” referenced in the title—actually overzealous Athenian jurors in Aristophanes’s text.Although the orchestra, sounding out of tune, had gotten off to a rocky start...
...21st century remix of 16th century style, the Tudors are more clothing obsessed than the average Teen Vogue reader. As a virile young Henry VIII on The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers comports himself as the world's first metrosexual, in taut leather shirts, fur doublets and enormous gems. The Other Boleyn Girl, scheduled for release early next year, is less salacious in its interpretation but no less compelling in the fashion stakes. Before the corpulence and the gout set in, Henry was a strapping King, and it's this image that inspired Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who conceived...